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By Wendy Cook Nov 26, 2008

Researchers have developed a powerful new camera and its goal is to protect planet earth. A 1.4 gigapixel camera will be "at the heart of a telescope installed on Haleakala mountain, Maui, Hawaii, which will begin operation next month, reports ZD Net. Can it save mankind and everything that is heading right for us?

Doomsday Earth: The 1.4 Gigapixel Camera Sentry

Cnet has this from Asia. "The Institute for Astronomy in the University of Hawaii has conceived this powerful camera and it is all in the name of saving mankind." What the massive digital camera do and how will it save us all from what happened to the dinosaurs?

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The report notes that it will "scan the skies and capture shots which can tell researchers whether there are any large objects set on a collision course with our planet. According to ZD Net (lots more here) the lead researcher says that they ‘get an image that is 38,000 by 38,000 pixels in size, or about 200 times larger than you get in a high-end consumer digital camera.

Listen to this claim - "the telescope will be able to detect ’stars 10 million times fainter than those visible to the naked eye’ and other moving objects near the Earth. Will you sleep better?

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